Westdale Grove Condominiums will be nestled in a park-like setting 1,703 acres, surrounded by beautiful, mature trees. It’s perfectly situated in the west end of St. John’s, close to many amenities.

As the fiirst High-End Condominium Project in the West End of St. John’s, it will be withing walking distance of the Village Shopping Centre, Doctors Offices, many restaurants, and beatiful Bowring Park. The location also features being on the doorste of Mt. Pearl as well as less than 5km from Downtown St. John’s.

Westdale Grove is located in popular Cowan Heights and will consist of 52 Units on four floors. All residences will include underground parking, large open air patios with glass rolling, storage lockers, and ample visitor parking for their guests.

Located at 835 Blackmarsh Road in Mount Pearl and just a 60 second drive from the new Team Gushue exchange on Topsail Road, you can be on the highway and almost anywhere you need to be in 15 minutes! The highway extension is planned on being finished in 2013.

A Newfoundland and Labrador company wants to build a wind turbine near a busy St. John's road to power a wholesale business and promote an alternative to hydroelectric power.

Labrador Coastal Equipment Limited has proposed a 225-kilowatt wind turbine on Kenmount Road near the wholesale business Blue Buoy Foods.
The company said the turbine would power Blue Buoy Foods with a source of clean, sustainable energy. It also expects wind power will significantly reduce energy bills at the business....

.."We would like see some of the small scale turbines within the city limits because we want to see alternative sources of energy and I think wind turbines are another source we should be looking at down the road," said Hann...

The St. John's Transportation Commission has purchased 13 Acres on Street 'A' (near Kelsey Drive) for the new Metrobus Facility. Construction at the new depot site, near Kenmount Road, is expected to start in the spring (2009). The estimated project cost is $34,205,586. http://www.cbc.ca/canada/newfoundlan...bus-depot.html

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“It’s a 20-year concept plan. The developers are hoping they can begin the first phase of that plan in 2012, and that will ... have a value of about $400 million,” O’Keefe said.
That phase is expected to take about five years to complete.
“The first phase, I think, will start with a retail phase,” O’Keefe said, but noted some other land uses may also be included.

... “It will take in retail, it will take in commercial, it will take in residential in will take in institutional and recreational,” he said of the concept development. “So it will actually be a development that would parallel the size of the town of Gander.”
O’Keefe was limited in what else he could say without the proposal on paper.
“But I can tell you it’s a very exciting concept, it’s going to have terrific economic value for the city, (the region) and the province in terms (of) employment, in terms of revenues for the province and the city. Like I said it’s almost like a town within the city,” he said.

St. John's City Council has rejected a controversial seniors complex proposed for Kilbride.

It's the second time the development has been turned down. Some councillors said it wasn't an easy decision to make.

In the end, the nays won – voting six to three against the complex.

The proposed plan was for a three-storey assisted living complex for seniors with 69 rooms, but people living near the site fought against it. They sent council almost 50 pages of letters and submissions. Coun. Debbie Hanlon said it was a difficult to come to a conclusion about the proposal.

“I'm trying to take the personal side out of it, which when I went through a lot of the letters it appeared not in my backyard was evident,” she said.

When it came time to cast her vote, Hanlon decided against the complex, citing traffic concerns.

Others voted against it, saying the location wasn't appropriate.

Coun. Frank Galgay voted for the project. He said St. John's needs more housing for seniors.

“It would be an addition to that neighbourhood. People should be rejoicing that senior citizens are coming in,” he said.

Developer Sean Callahan says his company had come up with a way to address traffic concerns, but council ignored the advice.

He says he may continue his legal challenge, but he has to consult with his lawyer first.

I'm sorry but what intersection is this? My ex girlfriend used to live in Kilbride, and my drive back and forth from my house was pretty simple, I never drove through any "dangerous" intersections, minus maybe the Columbus-Prince Phillip-Thorburn intersection by my house. It's really nothing but NIMBY'ism by the residents of Richmond Hill. Money can buy you your view, apparently.

The new west end high school will start construction soon. Not only will that possibly lead to more development in the west end, but it will also lead to two schools closing in the centre of the city. Hopefully when Bishops College and Booth Memorial close we'll see some development on those sites, they're both in good locations for condos.

The man behind a bid to build a seniors' complex in Kilbride, twice rejected by the St. John's City Council says he may end up taking the capital to court. Shawn Callahan says his company has become the whipping boy for traffic problems created by the city.

He called VOCM Backtalk with Paddy Daly yesterday to say that the traffic issues on Bay Bulls Road weren't created by him. He says local residents used his development to put pressure on city council to do something about the traffic congestion at the bottom of Richmond Hill.

Callahan says most of the development's 69 residents would be in their 80s and 90s and won't be driving. Callahan says he will discuss further options with his lawyer.

The Deputy Mayor of St. John's says the traffic problem that exists on Bay Bulls Road, was well-known to the city before the proposed Kilbride Seniors' Complex grabbed the attention of area residents. On VOCM Backtalk with Paddy Daley, Shawn Callahan, the project's developer, said people in the neighbourhood used the issue to pressure St. John's about the traffic congestion at the bottom of Richmond Hill. Shannie Duff says the city knows that is a seriously dysfunctional intersection, but it is only one factor in the city's decision to oppose the complex.

Duff says that intersection problem is not as high a priority for the city's capital works budget as other areas. She also says that the traffic congestion problem is just one of many concerns the city had about putting the complex in the area the developer was proposing.

The mayor of Conception Bay South is unhappy with Bell Aliant over the possible location of a large tower in the town.

Woodrow French says the company wants to put a 60-metre telecommunications tower in a residential area near Topsail beach.

French said it will be an eyesore.

“Here we are trying to promote beautiful Newfoundland, scenic Newfoundland, and what do we do in the centre of one of the most beautiful valleys on the northeast Avalon? We're gonna stick a communications tower [there],” he said.

Even though it's not actually in St. John's, the Kenmount Road -Topsail Road overpass has been seen as the symbolic divide between 'town' – and 'the bay'. Now it may be an indicator of how dire the province’s labour shortage could become.

According to the Department of Transportation and Works, the planned reconstruction of the overpass will miss its scheduled completion date by 12 months.

The original $5.6 million plan called for the work to be finished by the fall of 2011.

The new completion date is for the fall of 2012.

"A lack of skilled workers due to rapid economic growth and ongoing megaprojects" is at the root of the delay, according a government official who spoke with CBC.

The province estimates there will be a shortage of up to 70,000 workers within the next decade.

An open house this week to discuss the development of a master plan for O'Brien's Farm in St. John's. The area was established by the O'Brien family of Ireland nearly 200 years ago and is the last of what once was 35 farms that occupied the Freshwater Valley.

The provincial government acquired the property when Aly O'Brien passed away a few years ago. Government and the Newfoundland and Labrador Historic Sites Division are now developing a plan to preserve, protect and present what they call an important part of out local Irish and agricultural heritage.

The public is invited to an open house in the EB Foran Room at St. John's City Hall this Wednesday from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. to view historic maps and information about the O'Brien Farm and to discuss ideas about how the farm can best be used to help the public understand and appreciate its historic significance

I live in this neighbourhood, and I think that area could be somewhat developed, but at the same time preserving the farm land, maybe a mixed area. That fire really destroyed the building itself, whether or not it's salvagable I do not know.

Anytime I've driven through that part of Oxen Pond Road there seems to be interesting "illegal transactions" happening as I would call it, more of a presence in the area could help stop this. But I'm still for preservation of the farm land as well, it's nice not to have blocks of houses stretching for as far as the eye can see ala. Paradise, Mount Pearl, etc.

St. John's is now accepting proposals for wind turbines. The city has created legislation governing the use of small scale turbines within city boundaries. This follows a proposal by Blue Buoy Foods on Kenmount Road which raised safety concerns involving fall zones. Councillor Sheilagh O'Leary says the regulations now say the turbines are not permitted in commercial zones, nor are they allowed in the watershed zone. O'Leary says the fall zone must be at least 1.5 times the height of the turbine, with council having the discretion to increase the fall zone to three times the height of the turbine if neighbouring an occupied lot.

This is interesting and belongs here and the Main thread so I'll post it in both (as it is general regulations but in response to a specific proposal)